The heart(s) next to the unit represents how healthy the unit is. 3 hearts means the unit is close to full strength; 1 heart means the unit is severely depleted.
@fuzzbol4 жыл бұрын
I was just wondering about it! Thanks for description.
@georgedoolittle75744 жыл бұрын
This is a very good presentation. All I would add is Kiev is not the target and hence the Battle in the first place. Von Runstedt is not going to attack a City frontally no matter the orders.
@kevincocking8561 Жыл бұрын
i am truly enjoying this series dam nice
@AnimatedWarMapper10 ай бұрын
Great content, you inspired me to create ww2 map videos! Cheers
@lipan27577 жыл бұрын
It is generally accepted in the red army that it was until after Stalingrad they finally learned to fight the Wehrmacht. It's an education paid in endless blood and death. But even after they gain a major victory, their over eagerness to capitalize is often met with major backfire. For example their massive losses in Rzhev and Ukraine following battle of Moscow and Stalingrad respectively.
@OUigot Жыл бұрын
A question that is ignored by many historians is why there were so many Russian divisions in the southern front area. There was no reason to build up there army to that level? But, there was....they were about to invade Romania to capture the oil fields which was Germany's main source of oil. Stalin and Molotov were constantly threatening Germany they were going to invade Romania which would cripple Germany. This is one of the main reasons for Operation Barbarossa.....there's never any mention of that from historians today.
@treyloizzo92336 жыл бұрын
Budyony has the greatest mustache of all time
@sav2236 Жыл бұрын
thank you
@sqweebel12 жыл бұрын
I'll never fail to be shocked by how staggering the losses sustained by the Red Army were during these opening battles.
@جرائموحوادث7 жыл бұрын
Thanks for made this remarkable video .great explain.
@spaceman9599 Жыл бұрын
Oh, nice work. Sub'd
@bghyst7 жыл бұрын
Nice work! Keep it up!!! Looking forward to the next video.
@thehotgates14246 жыл бұрын
Great visual blow-by-blow account of the battle, as with all of your videos in this series.
@col.billkilgore43414 жыл бұрын
Sensational video!
@claudomiro407 жыл бұрын
Astounding work. Please tell us any form of support you would like.
@bregjejabra257 жыл бұрын
Thanks you. Well Presented and made.
@Awoogerz7 жыл бұрын
great stuff dude
@Legodude5527 жыл бұрын
Awesome videos. Just curious as to what sources you used to create these videos as I am interested in learning about the tactics of WW2 on the ground level in fine detail.
@zangwangdang7 жыл бұрын
Glad you like them. I put together the battle by reading contemporary Russian and German war maps.
@Legodude5527 жыл бұрын
Interesting, thank you.
@CobaltSVK7 жыл бұрын
Lovely work! Keep it up, subsribed!
@nikolairubinskii64506 жыл бұрын
What's up with morale? How do you know if it was low or high? What sources did you use?
@kennizhou63336 жыл бұрын
great explain, thanks for share.
@michaeljaroheinrich22345 жыл бұрын
Drums of the Deep - Kevin MacLeod is this the main theme of commandos 3 the video game? Any way great work! Love it !
@alotofrandom68667 жыл бұрын
Nice Video Man !
@mohamedabdelrazek60203 жыл бұрын
80 years ago
@pelontorjunta6 жыл бұрын
German losses were highest during August and after that went down in 1941: July 172 214, August 196 597, Sept 141 144, Oct 114 865, Nov 87 139 and Dec 77 857. With numbers of KIA: July 37 584, August 41 019, Sept 29 422, Oct 24 056, Nov 17 806 and Dec 14 949. No one knows exactly Soviet losses but according the new study of Russian military historian Lev Lopukhovsky and ,Boris Kavalerchik and Harold Orenstein (Author, Translator) military deaths in 41-45 were staggering 14.6 million.
@RENEBACON3 жыл бұрын
Staff (millions of people): Germany - 5.5; USSR - 2.9 (1.9: 1) Weapons and mortars (thousands of units): Germany - 47.2; USSR - 32.9 (1.4: 1) Tanks (thousands): Germany - 4.3; USSR - 14.2 (0.3: 1) Fighter aircraft (thousand units): Germany - 5.0; USSR - 9.2 (0.5: 1) The overall ratio of forces and resources of Germany and its allies, and the USSR (1.2: 1) It cannot be said, then, that Stalin allegedly did not equip the country for the war. Directive No. 1 of 21 June 1941. I enclose an order from the People's Commissariat of Defense for immediate implementation: 1. During June 22-23, 1941, a sudden German attack is possible. The attack can begin with provocative actions. 2. The task of our units is not to succumb to any provocative activities that could cause great complications. 3. At the same time, the military units of the military districts of Leningrad, the Baltic, the West, Kiev and Odessa should be fully prepared to face a possible sudden attack by the Germans or their allies. 4. I COMMAND: (a) on the night of 22 June 1941, secretly occupy the launch sites of fortified areas at the state border; b) before dawn on 22 June 1941 to disperse all aircraft, including military, carefully disguise them; c) bring everyone to combat readiness. Troops keep scattered and hidden; d) bring air defense to combat readiness. Prepare all measures for obscuring cities and buildings; e) not to perform any other actions without a personal order. The order was accepted by all commanders of the circuits and air force, but the order was delivered only to the troops of the military districts of Leningrad and the Baltic and the personnel of the Baltic Fleet. It was a direct betrayal of the homeland by military leaders, a betrayal that had catastrophic consequences. On August 8, 1941, Joseph Stalin was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the USSR Armed Forces. From that moment on, he took personal control of EVERYTHING at the front. No major operation during World War II was planned without his participation.
@Joseferberger7 жыл бұрын
-Stalin will save us! -But sir, Stalin doesn't give a shit about his people -Oh right, I forgot
@Ghost237127 жыл бұрын
Josef Allerberger what do you mean he helpt the ukranians loose sone weight because they got so fat so he did the holodomor where he starved to death 10 mil ukranians and he loved his workers so much he let them die on the battlefield for free without training oh and the great purge what a lovely gift for his generals but let's not forget the gulags you can work so much in good conditions in Siberia
@Joseferberger7 жыл бұрын
Man, Sounds as good as best Korea
@christopherkleinbach52374 жыл бұрын
Was?
@christopherkleinbach52374 жыл бұрын
Omg.🤭😖
@RENEBACON3 жыл бұрын
The famine in Ukraine is available (in English only, a publication by Canadian author Douglass Tottle - Fraud, Famine and Fascism, from which you can easily learn about the famine that it was caused exclusively by a bloody civil war, already unleashed by white decay with the help of interventions capitalist states with the support of tsarist generals. In this white collection you will also find the founder of Czechoslovakia. fascist village of Radol Gajda. It's just Mr. Vodvárka, with the support of local writers, that you have to use house numbers, probably taken exclusively from bourgeois journalistic prevention. You can learn a lot about the Civil War, its outbreak and its course in the book The Civil War in the USSR, which can be read in the mother tongue. P.S. In this respect, the fascinating figure of one of our best writers, the genius author of The Fates of the Good Soldier Švejk, Jaroslav Hašek, who directly participated in the fighting as a political commissioner together with 900 hundred Czechoslovaks, is very interesting. legionaries joining the Bolsheviks
@Bram067 жыл бұрын
Question, what are the hearts next to the divisions?
@averroesthecommentator29895 жыл бұрын
The hearts represent how well manned each division is. Basically like a health bar in a video game.
@HuSuBingQian7 жыл бұрын
Great series!
@MrBurtur4 жыл бұрын
More great- Stalingrad, Kursk, Berlin
@christopherfritz3840 Жыл бұрын
Imagine how the Germans had done in 'OB'☠️ with all the aircraft WASTED in the futile Battle of Britain..
@HistoryofT7 жыл бұрын
i really enjoy these videos :)
@Prussialove5 жыл бұрын
Thanks!
@rednoob89547 жыл бұрын
Please do Stalingrad
@stevefromwork61365 жыл бұрын
4:40,,pause,, when you see it, I'm so immature.
@WhiteBirdPlays2 жыл бұрын
Hey man this is a nice video explaining things clearly. How accurate. You think the formations are? I’m going to be in Уман in a month and I’m lookin to check out the areas where these troops fought. Maybe metal detect a bit. Any recommendations on places to go?
@billcallahan93036 жыл бұрын
Sounds like the Germans in '44 and '45. Situation reversed. Thank you!
@nippelpierre98216 жыл бұрын
Do you think that the presence of Marshal Mikhail Toukhatchevski and his staff would have changed the outcome of the Barbarossa operation? I think Staline made a serious mistake in getting rid of this Marechale from the same military precepts as De Gaulle and Guderian. It took until Operation Bagration to finally see the Red Army regain the strategy and tactics of imposing Marshal Toukhatchevski...
@ЗульфираВалиева-ж4и4 жыл бұрын
Переведите пожалуйста на русский язык, так хочется понять
@BS-xx7qq Жыл бұрын
а шо там розуміти?Лейбштандарт к@цапам роги обламали під Уманню і добрий пістон під хвоста вставили.
@kiowhatta17 жыл бұрын
Russian proletariat: 'If we have to choose, we prefer the dictator who speaks Russian.'
@roadrunner22044 жыл бұрын
Good channel, effort and animations, but as some other people already stated in your comments you kept repeating outdated Cold war propaganda in explanations of events. In this one is - Stalin didn't care about his people, which is easy to check if you speak Russian, and check any Russian veteran interview( they might speak bad about some of the generals, but not about Stalin), or check even nowdays Stalin popularity among common Russians, after decades of anti Stalin propaganda. Do you research. In this one, again it is Stalin fault, as he ordered to hold the ground, which we can see is not true, as whole front was trying to escape and retreating some 200km but was unable to do so, do to German mobility and air destruction of retreating soviet units, making any mass retreat in this stage of the war very risky maneuver. This is the main reasons why Red Army was encircled around Kiev, as they were realizing that retreating such a big mass of men and equipment along such a long distance in narrow corridor with few roads would be suicide ( and they have recalled recent disaster at Uman, with much smaller force ), and they wee hoping that defense line behind Dinepr as more than good natural obstacle could be held
@Itsatz07 жыл бұрын
I see you only talk about Nazi victories. Boy do I like to see fascists assholes squirm when the Fred Army is mentioned.
@TheOtherShuffler7 жыл бұрын
lol he's doing it chronologically
@PMMagro6 жыл бұрын
The Med got two (2) divisions later built up too three (3). It was peanuts but enough to stop the British aryans off course
@Grondorn6 жыл бұрын
There are no greater squirmers than Red Army bitches.